The enclosures would protect the Buckhorn Flowing Well (NWNE Sec.9 T24N-R109W) and the riparian/wetland areas it created from the overflow of the well in the Eighteen Mile Allotment. The enclosures would help improve habitat/vegetation/cover (provide brood-rearing habitat for sage grouse), place for wildlife to water, exclusion from livestock and wild horses. The reservoir will still be accessible for livestock and wild horses to water. This project will add a healthy wetland component to the sagebrush ecosystem, improving edge and diversity.
The priority for getting done first on this project would be is to protect the water well. Place a small exclosure around the water well to keep wild horses and livestock away from the shed and well head. A possible mulit-year project, depending on if additional funding is available, would extend the exclosure from the water well down to the reservoir and if possible another exclosure below the reservoir.
